The famous Rutgers tomato, a history
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Comments (2)Tracking down the origins is half the fun, TheTick. It can often be a detecting job that ranks up there with any Sam Spade story. I know a group of people who have spent several years, for instance, trying to track down the original Golden Queen forebear. There are numerous resources, both modern and old. For instance, among the modern references are Will Weaver's books ("Heirloom Vegetable Gardening" and "100 Vegetables and Where The Came From"). Somewhat older are the "X of New York" volumes, such as "Beans of NY," "Apples of NY," etc. Reaching way back, we have volumes such as Fearing Burr's "Field & Garden Vegetables of America," first published in 1863. And "Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book" And a whole host of others. Older agriculural reports, such as the USDA's "Yearbook of Agriculture" often provide insights. Old seed catalogs are a never ending resource. Unfortunately, they are a big-time collector item, and are sometimes cost prohibative. Understanding human population dynamics is often an important part of the equation. Without knowing something about that, for instance, there is no way to understand the widespread incidence of bi-color tomatoes in eastern Kentucky. Don't discount anecdotal evidence. Often it provides the only clues to origination. For example, everything we know about the origins of Cherokee Purple tomatoes is anecdotal in nature until Craig LeHoullier obtained and named it. Now, a partial answer to your specific question. Deer Tongue lettuce, which dates to at least the 1740s, is also known as "Matchless." The Amish Deer Tongue is a later variety, said to be less prone to bolting. I don't know when it was introduced under that name. There is also a Red Deer Tongue. That information was obtained in only a couple of minutes from references on hand, most of which were named above....See MoreAnother Jersey Tomato Released This Year
Comments (2)Oldokie, Well there is never any guarantee that I'll get ripe tomatoes before frost, but I usually do. I generally put my fall tomatoes into either the ground or containers in July. Then I just try to keep them alive and growing until the temperatures cool off in the fall. Sometimes I don't plant new tomato plants, but just coddle the spring tomatoes and baby them along until the weather cools. Sometimes I cut them back about 50% in July after most of the harvest is done, and water them well and they make great regrowth before fall. Once the weather cools, of course they bloom and set fruit. When cool nights are forecast, I cover the plants with Agribon floating row cover. I have it in two different weights--the lighter one gives 2-4 degrees of frost proteciton, and the heavier one gives 6-8 degrees of frost protection. If we expect the overnight low to be really cold, I throw a moving blanket over each plant, using clothespins to attach it to the tomato cage. If the fall tomatoes are in containers, I can move them into the greenhouse which will keep them slightly warmer than the outside air. Before I had the greenhouse, I'd just drag the plants in containers into the garage on cold nights. This year, I kept them in the greenhouse until December and they produced a lot of fruit very late. I have had years where the first killing frost or freeze hit really hard really early and I knew I couldn't protect the plants enough to keep them alive, so I just harvested all the fruit green and brought it inside. Some of the fruit I kept, and many of those ripened very slowly on the kitchen counter. I gave several grocery bags full of green tomatoes to a friend who wanted to make chow-chow. With fall tomatoes, there's never any guarantee of getting a harvest, but I'd say I get a harvest from them most years. Like everything else involving gardening in Oklahoma, the results vary a lot from year to year. Dawn...See MoreTomato, Jersey Boy Hybrid, from Burpee
Comments (29)In my area HD sells mostly Burpee, also ferry Morse, plus Ed Hume seeds. And some not so famous organic stuff. Burpee's concentration is on hybrids that is what makes their exclusivity. Heirlooms and OP are sold by so many marketers. Price wise, Burpee faces competition and have to cut prices to be able to stay on the supply-demand curve. I think great majority of people buy seeds from big box stores an they are the best vehicle for companies like Burpee to move the products. Their newer hybrids are usually sold a premium. If ordinary ones price 2 bucks the new ones are price like $3.50. Anyway. All I need just some Brandy Boy hybrid. The rest of my picks are all heirloom/OP. There this small internet store called: sample seeds shop (dot com) . they maybe over 100 varieties and the price is $1.26 per pack, Shipping about 3 bucks for average order. They also have peppers, vegetables , herbs. Worth visiting their site. I would never buy anything from Burpees online at inflated prices, as a matter of principle. The next vender to avoid is Bonnie....See MoreSource for determinate Rutgers seeds?
Comments (3)Fedco seeds carries Rutgers and gives some info you might be interested in. I'm working on a Fedco order and just read the info on Rutgers. Hth. 4055TO Rutgers Tomato OG (75 days) Open-pollinated. Ind. Two varieties are called Rutgers. We sell the original strain of this famous New Jersey tomato, developed by CampbellâÂÂs Soup Co. in 1928 as a cross between Marglobe and JTD. When Rutgers University âÂÂrefinedâ the variety in 1943, they took out some of the vininess but also some of the flavor. Our taste tests confirm that the original indeterminate strain is better. Long considered an outstanding slicing, cooking and canning tomato, the medium-sized 4��"6 oz mostly uniform and unblemished deep oblate fruits with rich red interior and pleasing texture have that great old-time flavor, delicious and juicy. Resistant to F1, V1, ASC and GLS. OT-certified. Item Quantity A=0.2g for $1.30 B=0.4g for $2.20 C=1g for $3.60 D=2g for $5.60 E=10g for $20.00...See More
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